New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- Two nights from now, 96 percent of the moon will vanish. Not completely. Nothing about this eclipse is total. But at 4:12 in the morning Greenwich time on August 28, Earth's shadow will swallow nearly the entire disc, leaving only a thin crescent of sunlit surface glowing at the top. What observers in the Americas will watch happen is called a partial lunar eclipse. What astrologers call it is something else: the closing chapter of a two-year emotional reckoning that began in September 2024.

what are you willing to let go of? This one asks it louder.

The partial phase begins at 2:33 AM UTC and ends at 5:52 UTC, a window of roughly three and a quarter hours during which the moon's color will shift from its usual sil...